The production stack, installed in one command.
Building user interfaces should not restart every project. Celestia is a full-stack monorepo starter with a real architecture: a Next.js 16 frontend that stays pure UI, a Hono backend that owns auth and data, and a feature installer so you only carry what you use.
npx @celestia-project/create my-appThe box comes full
Every piece is a package you can open and read. Nothing is generated behind a service, and nothing you remove leaves a hole.
Authentication
Email/password, Google OAuth, and 2FA. Sessions live in PostgreSQL, handled by Better Auth on the backend.
Typed API
Hono routes with an RPC client — call the backend from React with end-to-end types and no codegen.
Data layer
Drizzle ORM over PostgreSQL in a shared workspace package. Type-safe from schema to query.
Feature installer
pnpm add-feature <name> copies templates, wires imports, installs dependencies. Removing is one command too.
Monorepo
Turborepo pipeline and pnpm workspaces. UI, configs, and types shared across apps without duplication.
Install the whole stack
Clones the template, then walks you through feature selection, env files, and the schema push. Removing a feature later is one command too.
npx @celestia-project/create my-appTwo apps. One boundary. Enforced by structure
The frontend never touches the database. The backend never renders a pixel. Requests cross the boundary only through the /api/* rewrite — so secrets stay server-side by construction, not by convention.
Pure UI
- Next.js 16 App Router — pages, components, client-side auth only
- No database access, no server secrets, ever
- Talks to the API through the same-origin proxy
Owns the truth
- Hono server on port 4000 — business logic and CRUD
- Better Auth server — sessions, OAuth, 2FA
- Drizzle ORM — the only code that talks to PostgreSQL
From npx to pnpm dev
One command clones the template, then walks you through the rest: pick features, write env files, install dependencies, push the schema. You land in a repository you already understand.
$ npx @celestia-project/create my-app
✔Cloning monorepo template
✔Features selected: auth, dashboard, blog
✔Dependencies installed in 42s
✔Environment files written
✔Database schema pushed
✔Ready. cd my-app && pnpm dev
Start from architecture, not setup.
Create an account and take the dashboard for a spin, or run the installer and make it yours.